on the island, and many are related to looting. i hate to use the term looting because we think of people going into stores and robbing. it s not what s happening. people are going for food and water. it is a lawless situation, according to the dutch government. they ve put troops in the city to try to restore what they can. this was the first category 5 storm to hit cuba since 1932. they evacuated a million people off of the key islands of north earn cuba. this is what, in many ways, slowed irma down. we are expecting a cat 4 or cat 5 landfall from irma. cuba slowed it down. the pictures are from havana. the flooding came in six blocks into the city of havana, surrounded the u.s. embassy up to waist-high water. a difficult scene. as we ve heard, at least ten people killed in cuba. it was interesting to listen to the interview you all did with
where you re going to have to get in a dinghy and check your spot to find out if your boat made it. you ll look out there and everything looks great until you notice, nope, that one sunk. that one sunk. some of them held out okay. there s a pretty big sailboat over there at the very end that is half underwater. so just to show you the power of the wind and the water out here. the other thing i want to tell people, and this is something we found after just about every storm, particularly with marina damage, there s fuel oil in the water here. be very, very careful. the smell is kind of overwhelming and a powerful smell. you know it is here. cowboy, i m not sure if you can see the sheen. we can. the current is taking that fuel oil all the way in and around there. there s usually a subtle color to the water. when you re looking for fuel oil, it looks like a rain bobor. like a slick rainbow thing to it. that s something i hate to see.
she s looking around to see where the cat. it is a bush, not a tree, so you can t climb it. the branchs can t withstand your weight and you can t see the cat. looking at the cat, i think about the water. there s a woman trying to stand there. it is not like it is still water. i mean, the water is rushing, rushing through jacksonville. this is an area that simply wasn t expecting to get hit this hard. sam champion and i were discussing, in rushing water, this is not rising water like a puddle, in rushing water, six inches can knock you off sam is listening to this conversation in miami. let s bring him in. rushing water can knock you off your feet, six inches of it. sam, people don t understand the weight of water at this speed. reporter: yeah. we re still in miami. ali, talking about the power
underwater but also homes and vehicles completely submerged. the water clearly rushed right into this neighborhood house after house, all across the keys. it s suffered serious damage. we ve seen a family, even a couple people wading through what looks like knee-deep water here. the military is trying to reach folks that may not have been able to evacuate in time. this is a truck pulling through the water here. folks that may not have been able to make it out in time to safe ground. these are the kind of communities that the military is trying to reach today. we know later on this afternoon, they hope to be flying in with the c- 130 military cargo jets that ll bring the basics, food and water to communities hard-hit like this. we ve been told tens of thousands of people in the keys did not evacuate. as you know, this is a string of tropical islands, incredibly popular with tourists. a lot of people live here. their full-time homes have been obliterated by irma, as it tore through here
we re four miles from miami beach. they said they are without food, without water. we ve only seen one restaurant on our drive that is open at this point. there is a situation now where people have been holed up since friday in most situations and there s a lot of concern. 660,000 were under mandatory evacuation for miami. for people here, they endured the storm but others are arriving to the scene. also trying to make their way through the trees. we actually while driving along, we got another report about a couple mile acewas we got another report about a couple mile acew away, a gentle was using a chain saw, trying to move a tree. the tree fell on him. it s sunny. not a lot of water in the streets. but there is concern as people try to return to life. the 6-year-old boy, the family, have they been in the house the last few days? reporter: they were staying in it during it. we got video we ll get into the system. unfortunately, we were encouraged by the fire